Should i downgrade my CPU?

[0l4]

I got r9 280x 3gb and I have i3 8100 but my gpu is too weak for my cpu so I though I downgrade to like i5 4gen.I need some recommendations + my game freeze sometimes so does more ram fix that issue?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

What kind of monke logic is that...

No it does not help, what helps is to get a new GPU instead of that outdated 280X.
RX 6600 if you can`t afford RX 6700 XT or RTX 3060 12 GB.

[Illusion of Progress]

Downgrading your CPU to alleviate performance issues has to be about the silliest thing I've ever heard of. Why would anyone be going to dusty old decade CPUs from a half a decade old CPU?

Why do you think that is going to fix anything? It won't. If you have a GPU limitation in a given moment, and it causes a freeze, then with the same GPU and a weaker CPU, either you're going to still have a GPU limitation and still get the freeze, or you're actually going to have more of a CPU limitation and just get lower performance (in other words, it will be worse).

Stop listening to people who pretend there is a balance to this. It's nonsense. You always have a bottleneck. Now people are asking if it's worth paying to go backwards?

If something is causing a freeze and the GPU is the bottleneck in that scenario, you have two solutions.

Add more GPU power.

Remove some of the GPU load (lower settings).

Or some combination. Lowering your CPU changes nothing in that moment, and possibly lowers things outside that moment.

[Illusion of Progress]

We would need metrics on the exact moment the freezes are happening to tell what it is. Freezes/stutters/hitches have many causes. Could be the CPU (lack of cores/threads). Could be RAM. Could be lack of GPU processing. Could be VRAM. It could even be temperatures (less likely if it's just momentary, though). Could be anything, really. It could even be the game; some games will just have those moments almost no matter what hardware you throw at it (*cough* Minecraft *cough*).

OP should be giving more information. What game(s) is (are) it? Do they have performance metrics (CPU use, GPU use, RAM use, and VRAM use namely) when this occurs?

But the last thing I'm looking at doing to alleviate such a thing is downgrading a CPU. That can not help. I wouldn't do it for free, and I certainly wouldn't pay to go backwards.

[Overseer]

No. If anything upgrade the graphics card to something like a 8GB RX580 or something more recent.

[hackintoshchap]

Originally posted by 𓂀 𝒪 𝐿 𝟦 𓂀:

I got r9 280x 3gb and I have i3 8100 but my gpu is too weak for my cpu so I though I downgrade to like i5 4gen.I need some recommendations + my game freeze sometimes so does more ram fix that issue?

You have an Intel 8th generation CPU model. Your motherboard will not accept an older generation CPU - so there is no way to make that swap work.

The freezing or stuttering may be caused by several things.

The GPU has only 3GB of video RAM, this may be the cause, try lowering textures, AA settings and anything that may be heavy on the GPU or GPU memory.

System RAM, a common issue with many budget builds for gaming is were the user has only a single stick of RAM - this does cause a lack of memory bandwidth that games really need. You need to sticks of the same RAM installed in dual channel mode. Where a motherboard has a color difference for RAM slots, use the same color slots for your RAM installation - this should leave an empty RAM slot between the two installed slots.

If you have a Hard Disk Drive, it may be worth defraging it:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/defragment-your-windows-10-pc-048aefac-7f1f-4632-d48a-9700c4ec702a

Cleaning up unneeded or rarely used Windows startup and background tasks could also help your experience.

[hackintoshchap]

Your 4 core, 4 thread CPU isn't too strong at all. If anything it would prefer a 4 core, 8 thread or similar CPU.

You can never really have too much CPU power, although it wouldn't make sense to use a 16 core 32, thread CPU with a HDD, 8GB RAM and an R9 280X GPU.

A modern 6 core CPU would be the best budget CPU for gaming. It is a good balance between performance and price for those not spending many hundreds on a new GPU.

[0l4]

Thank you guys it helped, by the way I saw on some site that I should downgrade I knew it was a bad idea. I'll stick with this and i though get more ram and sell the one stick 8gb and get better 2x8gb same rams and get rx 580 8gb (used).The freezes are every few sec sometimes it takes up to 10 sec freeze games are Pubg Xdefiant +rainbow six siege a bit but I can play on ultra with high 50 fps but when I try to switch to lower settings it gets up to mid 40 fps my final upgrade will be rx 580 and more ram thank you guys again I'll accept more recommendations too.

[Cathulhu]

Not surprising, all those games easily exceed 3GB VRAM at 1080p resolution. Wich would explain the issue with the system not keeping up loading all the data required.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

What kind of monke logic is that...

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by 𓂀 𝒪 𝐿 𝟦 𓂀:

Thank you guys it helped, by the way I saw on some site that I should downgrade I knew it was a bad idea.:

Erase that site from your memory and never go back there

[r.linder]

Just upgrade your GPU. 280X isn't fast.

[The Commendatore]

Uh, no?

[0l4]

Rtx 3050?

[r.linder]

Originally posted by 𓂀 𝒪 𝐿 𝟦 𓂀:

Rtx 3050?

RX 6600 is better value

[SlowClick]

Why not just wind back the in-game video settings to make it easier on the GPU?
Limit FPS to 60 or even 30 (quite usable in driving games for example) or visual effects to medium instead of high. If you can get some software that shows GPU usage, aim for about 80% usage.